Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 07/06/2020
Whether you wear a mask or not is not something I'm getting into here, though I find that my bank, which once forbade hats and sunglasses, now demanding masks on all customers is drop-deal comical in its irony. But the
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 06/29/2020
I'm frequently asked in interviews, "What's the one thing that's made you successful?" Well there isn't "one thing," but I do tend to focus on the highly pervasive, hugely influential mastery of language that I believe is essential to everyone's
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 06/22/2020
Bentley, our German Shepherd, loves to chase anything that moves. I believe the trait is called "predatory drift." But he never kills anything, even the dumb ducks that always start running too late (our white ducks can't fly). Most animals
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 06/15/2020
One of the funniest (though not intentionally) letters I ever received about Monday Morning Memo was in response to an issue I wrote in Nantucket about wandering down the beach and appreciating nature. An irate guy wrote, with a rather procrustean tone,
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 06/08/2020
I was in Newark, New Jersey at Rutgers in the 60s, a decade when the inner cities burned, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a recent memory, the Beatles began, Woodstock
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 06/01/2020
Well, let's see: This past week we launched two men into space on a commercial rocket with touch-screen controls and retrievable boosters, in a module as sleek as a Corvette. The cosmetics reminded me of a rocket ship made by
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 05/25/2020
Memorial Day is a time when we in the US (and in other countries on various days) honor those who have given their lives for our freedom and liberty by serving their country, providing what Lincoln called "their last full
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 05/18/2020
Sometimes people tell me, with compliments intended, that it's just wonderful how Monday Morning Memo shows up faithfully every Monday morning. "That's why," I point out, "it's not called 'Tuesday Morning Memo,'" though that reply is often not grokked. (It's
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 05/11/2020
Our great blue heron has returned for the season. It looks like a pterodactyl in flight. It can stand in the pond for hours awaiting a fish to swim by, it doesn’t check email. It’s occasionally joined by an egret,
Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 05/04/2020
When I was in third grade, I majored in trying to be the teacher's pet. I was insufferable, but really quite adept at it. One day, a quite antiquated visiting English expert came to our class. She asked everyone to
